Our View: Public has a right to know about settlements with UI employees

7:27 PM,
Jan. 22, 2013

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
| Our View

Earlier this month, the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that Iowa's Open Records Law requires the University of Iowa to hand over its departure agreement with a former medical school employee who resigned from his position in 2011.

Although pleasing to us, the ruling is hardly surprising.

After all, Iowa code clearly gives discretion to the custodians of such personnel records to decide whether compelling public interest outweighs an employee's limited expectation of privacy. ...